Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of school is Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary?
(a) A Nunnery
(b) A Negro school for girls
(c) A Catholic school for girls
(d) A White school for girls

2. What is the name of Williams' daughter?
(a) Denise
(b) Coretta
(c) Anne
(d) Alberta

3. What country does Betty's family come from?
(a) Romania
(b) France
(c) Britain
(d) Germany

4. Who is the candidate for the Republicans in the 1960 presidential election?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) Lyndon Johnson
(c) Richard Nixon
(d) Gerald Ford

5. What did King have to work on as well as working on church business?
(a) A series of paintings
(b) His dissertation
(c) His autobiography
(d) A novel

6. What does the black driver do when a black girl refuses to give up her seat for a white person?
(a) Beats her up
(b) Throws her off the bus
(c) Phones the police
(d) Threatens her with a gun

7. Where does King receive an offer to teach?
(a) Boston College
(b) New York University
(c) Morehouse College
(d) Dillard University

8. What does Crozier Theological Seminary have in its basement rec room?
(a) Dart boards
(b) A science lab
(c) Pool tables
(d) Computers

9. Which of the following is a title of one of John's sermons?
(a) Blacks and White its All Alright
(b) It's Safe to Murder Negroes in Montgomery
(c) Down and Out and Almost Dead
(d) People are Born to Hate

10. What did a group of Negroes form in 1867?
(a) The first Baptist Church
(b) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
(c) The First Baptist Church of Montgomery
(d) SNCC

11. What is the name of the club King organizes at Boston?
(a) The Freedom Club
(b) The Communist Club
(c) The Philosophical Club
(d) The Religious Club

12. Where did King's friend organize a similar boycott?
(a) Jackson
(b) Chapeau Rouge
(c) Baton Rogue
(d) Memphis

13. What is King asked to write a book about?
(a) Ghana
(b) His life
(c) The Old Testament
(d) The Montgomery Bus Boycott

14. What did the Dexter Avenue Church find it difficult to find?
(a) Funding
(b) A congregation
(c) Suitable preachers
(d) A church

15. In what state do the Freedom Riders encounter their first problems?
(a) Noth Carolina
(b) Mississippi
(c) South Carolina
(d) Georgia

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike King's father do for a living?

2. What does a mob throw through the back window of a bus?

3. Why does Robert Kennedy begin to shy away from King?

4. What did Johns begin to sell on the streets?

5. Whose philosophy does Harris Wofford follow?

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